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Awards & Honors - Aug 18, 2017

Ouchi Receives National Institute on Aging GEMSSTAR Award

Kei Ouchi, MD, MPH

Kei Ouchi, MD, MPH

Kei Ouchi, MD, MPH, of the Department of Emergency Medicine, was selected as a recipient of the National Institute on Aging’s Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists’ Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) for his project entitled “Identifying and empowering older adults with serious illness to formulate their goals for medical care in the emergency department.”

Ouchi will analyze a large clinical database to study the prognostic accuracy of emergency physicians’ responses to the following question: "Would you be surprised if your patient died in the next 12 months?" In addition, he will pilot test the feasibility of using brief motivational interview intervention to empower older adults with serious illness to formulate and communicate their goals for medical care after leaving the emergency department (ED).

An emergency physician and internist, Ouchi studies ways that providers can deliver goal-concordant care for older adults with a serious illness toward the end of their lives. Particularly, he focuses on how ED visits can serve as opportunities to guide patients to discuss their care preferences with physicians.

The National Institute on Aging, one of 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health, leads the U.S. government in conducting and supporting research on aging and the health and well-being of older people. The institute seeks to understand the nature of aging and the aging process, as well as diseases and conditions associated with growing older, in order to extend the healthy, active years of life.